ong story. Buckle up. In my family there is me and my older sister by 19 months. We have different fathers. She knew who her father was, he and my mother were married for a time. I dont know who my father is, father unknown on birth certificate. When we were kids our mum told us that we'd had a brother too but that he died when he was 7 from leukaemia. His name was S.
My mum died when I was 11 years old and we were left with a step father, who turned out to be a neglectful abuser.
I left home at 16 and had a fractured relationship with sf over the next few years.
I have always wanted to know where I came from and anything about my brother.
I asked an auntie who gave me his name and said that when my mum was young she would leave him with a couple whilst she was working and collect him after a few days. Story goes, one day she went to pick him up and they'd all gone. Auntie believed to West Yorkshire.
That was it, my mum never looked for him. Really? They kidnapped him and she did nothing? I never believed this story. She was young, penniless and had no family support, she must have let them have him mustn't she?
The story about him dying never made any sense so when I had the means and know how I looked him up. All I had was his first name and my mums name.
I soon found his birth certificate. Interestingly, he was born 7 years before me but we shared a birth surname. His father is named on his birth certificate.
There's no death certificate. He didn't die.
Fast forward a few years and I've managed to find out that his second family never changed his name, they had moved to Bradford, I even know the street name.
I know when he got married and who he married.
This is where my trail has gone cold. I've put a notice in the village Facebook group where he got married but that was in the 80's.
I've found 2 cousins who we think our fathers are brothers but they don't know who their father is either. They are half siblings who found each other through ancestry.
I've even written to davina. I don't know what else to do.
Does anyone have experience of finding relatives.
I'm on ancestry with my dna. I'm guessing the new family didn't adopt him officially as I can't find an adoption certificate and he has thr same name as an adult that my mum gave him.
No photos on the Internet either.
Hellllppppp.